Coniston Massacre Sites

Sites at which killings occurred during the Coniston massacres on expeditions lead by Mounted Constable Murray, including sites mentioned by colonists participating in the massacres and sites recorded in Aboriginal oral history - according to Bradley, Coniston, 2019 and Making Peace With The Past, 1928-2003. Note that the sites appearing in Aboriginal oral history, but not all, may be the same sites as appear in the Colonial record and other sources.

Bradley, M 2019, Coniston, UWA Press, Perth.

Bowman, Marg (ed) Every Hill Got A Story Central Land Council, Hardie Grant Books, 2015 https://www.clc.org.au/every-hill-got-a-story/

H.E.C. Robinson Ltd. Map of Northern Territory showing pastoral stations &c Canberra: H.E.C. Robinson, 1945. Web. 21 April 2024 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-410786254

Kimber, D., 'Real True History: The Coniston Massacre' (serialised in 18 parts), Alice Springs News, vol 10, issue 32, to vol 11, issue 3, 2003-04.
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2018/08/15/the-coniston-massacre-remembered/

Hill, Ernestine "MURRAY—SCOURGE OF THE MYALLS" in Northern Standard (Darwin, NT : 1921 - 1955) 3 March 1933 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48058883.

Making Peace with The Past: Remembering the Coniston Massacre, 1928-2003. Central Land Council, 2003 https://digitalntl.nt.gov.au/10070/660392/0/4

Colonial violence.

Sites on the first of three massacre expeditions lead by Mounted Constable Murray, where the expedition encountered Aboriginal people, according to Bradley in Coniston, 2019.

Colonial Violence.

Sites on the second of three massacre expeditions lead by Mounted Constable Murray, where the expedition encountered Aboriginal people, according to Kimber in Real True History: The Coniston Massacre. This expedition is the most obscure, with few details recorded.

"Oral histories, which can only be approximations in time, indicate that, as might be expected, the patrol travelled north along the Hanson River from Pine Hill, having three encounters; from Coniston travelled north along the Lander River country where two more encounters took place; then followed down the Lander and had two more encounters in the general Coniston area." (Kimber, 2003-2004)

Kimber's estimates appear to fill in gaps on the Lander and Hanson rivers left by the 1st and 3rd expeditions.

Kimber, D., 'Real True History: The Coniston Massacre' (serialised in 18 parts), Alice Springs News, vol 10, issue 32, to vol 11, issue 3, 2003-04.
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2018/08/15/the-coniston-massacre-remembered/

Colonial Violence. These locations are based on rough estimates only, as the inferred locations are only in the most general terms such as north along the river.

Sites on the third of three massacre expeditions lead by Mounted Constable Murray, where the expedition encountered Aboriginal people, according to Bradley in Coniston, 2019.

Colonial violence.

Sites of the Coniston massacres recorded in Aboriginal oral history, during the expeditions lead by Mounted Constable Murray, according to Bradley in Coniston, 2019; Bowman, Every Hill Got A Story 2015 and Making Peace with The Past: Remembering the Coniston Massacre, 1928-2003. Note that Every Hill Got A Story mentions some other sites from the killing times that don't appear to be part of the Coniston massacres: Itarlenty (Blackfellows Bones Bore), Twenge (Henbury), and 'this side of Wilpiya/Areyonga' (Angus Downs).

Bradley, M 2019, Coniston, UWA Press, Perth.

Bowman, Marg (ed) Every Hill Got A Story Central Land Council, Hardie Grant Books, 2015 https://www.clc.org.au/every-hill-got-a-story/

H.E.C. Robinson Ltd. Map of Northern Territory showing pastoral stations &c Canberra: H.E.C. Robinson, 1945. Web. 21 April 2024 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-410786254

Kimber, D., 'Real True History: The Coniston Massacre' (serialised in 18 parts), Alice Springs News, vol 10, issue 32, to vol 11, issue 3, 2003-04.
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2018/08/15/the-coniston-massacre-remembered/

Hill, Ernestine "MURRAY—SCOURGE OF THE MYALLS" in Northern Standard (Darwin, NT : 1921 - 1955) 3 March 1933 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48058883.

Making Peace with The Past: Remembering the Coniston Massacre, 1928-2003. Central Land Council, 2003 https://digitalntl.nt.gov.au/10070/660392/0/4

Colonial Violence